Google Chrome, every mention
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Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:31 Brandon Millman We started off as a Chrome extension, but more recently released our iOS app at the end of January.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:00 Brendan Eich So Brave is a faster browser because it blocks all the trackers, many of which Google or its publishers or ad buyers depend on, and it's based on Chrome, the Chromium open source code.
- ▶ 6:17 Brendan Eich So if you were using Google Chrome, which kind of swept the market up to 70%, let's say, or more of market share, uh, 2.65 billion users, they say,
- ▶ 6:27 Brendan Eich You should get off Chrome and you should use Brave.
- ▶ 27:59 Brendan Eich That was the first browser extension ecosystem way ahead of Chrome's.
- ▶ 31:16 Brendan Eich So they were working on browsers before Chrome, and the browser to work on was Firefox.
- ▶ 34:22 Ben Gilbert Firefox did really, really well and gained a huge market share, and then when Chrome launched, it's been slowly etched away every year by Chrome now, and it's down around something like three percent.
- ▶ 35:12 Brendan Eich Rockmelt was when after Chrome came out and was based on the Chrome fork of WebKit, which wasn't its own thing really then, and tried to add social.
- ▶ 36:37 Brendan Eich And UCWeb grew against Chrome in Indonesia and Bangladesh and India.
- ▶ 36:42 Brendan Eich In some Indian states, it had more share than Chrome.
- ▶ 37:40 Brendan Eich We didn't want to take so much revenue in the, in the deal that it became cheaper for them to do Chrome, so we tried to adjust that, but all we did was defer Chrome maybe a few months, a year at most.
- ▶ 38:09 Brendan Eich And that became the basis for not only what they put in Safari, but for Chrome.
- ▶ 39:13 Brendan Eich Larry sat up and said, wait, we're running a search advertising business, and Chrome isn't tracking our users.
- ▶ 39:45 Brendan Eich And Chrome, if you sign into the browser, which is a separate feature in the upper right corner, using your Google account, then you're tracked for ad targeting.
- ▶ 40:19 Brendan Eich But I used to do talks at conferences, ask how many people were using Chrome, how many people knew this, how many people opted out.
- ▶ 41:08 Brendan Eich When I was thinking about Brave, I realized not only had Mozilla become captured by its search partner and was probably going to die because it couldn't compete, not just on Chrome intrinsic qualities, but on distribution, which really…
- ▶ 41:50 Brendan Eich So Google has to pay to distribute Chrome.
- ▶ 48:30 Brendan Eich They used uBlock Origin on Chrome, and now they're using Brave, and I can't get to them through my usual, you know, media channels and advertising methods.
- ▶ 1:01:38 Brendan Eich Now, the downside of this is we look a lot like Chrome.
- ▶ 1:01:46 Brendan Eich We have our own look for the tabs, but it still looks a little like Chrome.
- ▶ 1:01:50 Brendan Eich It's got Chrome extensions, which can be loaded if they don't use the Google account system I mentioned that's for tracking that we disable.
- ▶ 1:01:56 Brendan Eich But, you know, it's still a little bit too Chromey, and yet I think it's worth it because that helped us get users off Chrome.
- ▶ 1:02:02 Brendan Eich Until we really did that rebasing on the front end of Chrome, we were paying a growing maintenance cost on all this electron forkage, and our users were suffering because it wasn't fully Chrome.
- ▶ 1:02:18 Brendan Eich So we switched to a more complete Chrome fork like a lot of browsers use.
- ▶ 1:05:10 Brendan Eich I mentioned Chrome is alleged to have 2.65 billion users.
- ▶ 1:05:16 Brendan Eich I uninstalled Chrome.
- ▶ 1:11:57 Ben Gilbert Now you're building your own native Brave wallet directly into the browser, which is totally a thing that Safari could do, that Chrome could do, and it doesn't seem like
- ▶ 1:35:07 David Rosenthal Do you think that Facebook or Google or, or any of the others could ship a wallet in Chrome, for instance, or like actually really embrace this?
- ▶ 1:35:17 Brendan Eich I know Google had a wallet or may even have a wallet team that does some outward bound stuff, and they never connected it with Chrome.
- ▶ 1:37:12 Brendan Eich So, you know, we're trying to get people off of Chrome and that's a matter of getting people to see that it's easy to migrate.
- ▶ 1:37:21 Brendan Eich And then you can cut the cord with Chrome.
- ▶ 1:38:10 Brendan Eich If you're taking users from Chrome, we could both take and not really interfere with Joe.